Remembering Gary Gygax, One year later

KRBourgoine · Mar 4, 2009

Today is the one year annivesary of Gary Gygax's passing. He was a wonderful friend and I miss sitting on his porch talking the night away.

Rest Well, Gary

Kerry

Alzrius · Mar 4, 2009

Rest well, Gary. The game you created continues to thrive and bring joy to people. Thank you.

JeffB · Mar 4, 2009

I sure do miss his input, candor, perspective, gigantic Q&A threads here (and at DF) and the few occassions when he'd get "punny" here on the boards.

RIP Gary

Philotomy Jurament · Mar 4, 2009

JeffB said:
I sure do miss ... the few occassions when he'd get "punny" here on the boards.

He definitely had a love of words and word-play. He could milk those puns for all they were worth, even if they got my goat and were a bit cheesy and muensterous, at times. I was never very gouda at that kind of thing. My puns would curdle and sour the conversation, making everyone want to kick my dairy air. (Dairy I say that kind of thing, in this company?)

Monte At Home · Mar 4, 2009

It can't be said often enough:

We wouldn't be here without Gary. There wouldn't be an ENWorld. There wouldn't be a Wizards of the Coast.

There wouldn't be World of Warcraft. I'd even argue that there wouldn't be a flourishing fantasy genre of any kind, games, books or movies.

I very likely wouldn't be a writer of any kind.

wedgeski · Mar 4, 2009

Is it really a year already? /glum

FATDRAGONGAMES · Mar 4, 2009

If the measure of a person is the joy and happiness they bring to others, then Gary was truly one of the greatest of his generation. Rest in peace Gary.

jgbrowning · Mar 4, 2009

Monte At Home said:
It can't be said often enough:

We wouldn't be here without Gary. There wouldn't be an ENWorld. There wouldn't be a Wizards of the Coast.

There wouldn't be World of Warcraft. I'd even argue that there wouldn't be a flourishing fantasy genre of any kind, games, books or movies.

I very likely wouldn't be a writer of any kind.

Says what I would like to say as well.

joe b.

Rhuvein · Mar 4, 2009

"Blessed art Thou, oh Lord our God, King of the Universe"

Dear Lord,

Please bless our friend Gary Gygax and may he Rest In Peace and dwell in YOUR house forever.

Amen.

I'm very glad to have met and gamed with him.

[Thanks for everything Gary]

[God Bless Gail, Alex, Ernie, Heidi, Luke, Cindy, Elise and the entire Gygax clan]

Shalom.

KRBourgoine · Mar 4, 2009

The GaryCon event we are having this weekend in Lake Geneva is the best thing we could think of to honor all that he gave us.

We will gather, tell stories, and game.

If you cant make it this year, hopefully you can make it to the next one.

http://garycon.eventbrite.com/